Letter: Four easy steps to a more secure border

Friday, May 12, 2006 | 7:22 a.m.

We don't need to build a wall or secure our U.S. borders with more inefficient border patrols. We need the following:

1) Stiff penalties against employers who hire illegal immigrants and refuse to verify documents of applicants before hiring them.

2) Create a new guest-worker program to help farmers who can't operate without migrant workers. Later, any surplus of migrant workers can be hired in other occupations but with priority for farms.

3) Create employment offices at the U.S. borders for migrant workers only. They will apply there before crossing the border illegally, and work permits will be issued to them with pictures and fingerprints.

4) Use our National Guard and Army to secure the borders with the border patrols.

The USA has been occupied by more than 20 million illegal immigrants from different countries who crossed the borders to provide cheap labor for America's businesses and corporations, which receive tax benefits to operate legally and not to hire illegal aliens with impunity, without pension benefits, Medicare and medical care paid by the U.S. government. Employers must pay benefits.

American businesses and corporations are responsible, and they alone should be held accountable for the situation we have now.

Gerard A. Sanchez Sr., Las Vegas